Doctor Who Santa-in-Chief Steven Moffat has held off on his delivery of Christmas gifts this week in order to bemoan the difficulty of hiring female writers and directors. While Rachel Talalay directed the two-part Series 8 finale Dark Water/Death in Heaven and we recently discovered that former Torchwood writer Catherine Treganna has accepted an invite to…

Ever wanted to see a robot play the Doctor Who theme tune with a theremin as part of a pan-European robotic orchestra? You have?! Well, despite that being really unlikely, it’s exactly what we have for you right now. From the 2014 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures on BBC Four yesterday, watch agog as 15 robotic…

Remember Doctor Puppet, the beautifully designed puppet tribute to Doctor Who? Well he’s back, with a Christmas special! “The Planet That Came For Christmas” has been launched on YouTube, and you can watch it above right now. Featuring puppet versions of the Twelfth Doctor and Clara, this mysterious Christmas adventure is made by a team…

This week, the Doctor Who podKast (with a “K”) discusses the build up to the 2014 Christmas special, Last Christmas. Before that, however, James McLean and Brian A Terranova discuss the rather interesting clip from 1985’s BBC Children in Need, featuring virtually all surviving Doctor Who stars and their companions… with one very notable exception!…

Coming tomorrow on the Type 40 blog, Chris McKeon, co-author of the Doctor Who charity novel, Time’s Champion, conducts a follow-up interview with Hannah Haisman, granddaughter of 1960s scriptwriter Mervyn Haisman and Executor of the Haisman Literary Estate, and licensor for Candy Jar Books’ forthcoming Lethbridge-Stewart novels. You may recall we mentioned the first interview,…

Taking part in the Mr Media podcast (which you can hear above), Peter Capaldi has chatted about how he found his first year in the TARDIS, and how he would like the Twelfth Doctor to be remembered. Speaking to Bob Andelman, Capaldi – promoting the Inside the Mind of Leonardo da Vinci 3D short –…

Been wondering what the fuss is about with the Minecraft Doctor Who skins on the Xbox 360 and Xbox One? Basically, they make it a lot easier to bring characters from the show’s 51 years into a digital playground. However, there are many users of Minecraft who go beyond playing the game as it is…